We’re having a low-key day in celebration. I LOVE having kiddos who are starting to get older. They surprised us with “breakfast-in-bed” which was (cold) waffles, syrup, and milk, and homemade cards from each of them. It meant more to us than all the grand breakfast buffet’s in the world.

We skipped church this morning. Not our best moment, but church is during Annabelle’s feeding time, and since I slept in an hour (till 7 instead of 6!) I couldn’t feed her early like I usually do. So, we sang praise and worship music together, read a chapter in the Bible, and the girls did a Karalynn sponsored Sunday School activity. (They made crosses out of popcycle sticks.)

We HOPE to go to dinner tonight withOUT our kids for the first time in a LONG time. It’s the first time leaving Annabelle with a family member though, so we are playing this by ear at the moment. If I’m even the slightlest bit worried about Annabelle, we’ll stay home and just veg out here.

(Note: The above is an inside joke… that I will explain. Scott and I met online in a chat-room, back when chat-rooms were still half-way cool. Like, the You’ve Got Mail days. Anyway, whenever we would write “snail mail” to each other, we’d end the letter with, Sincerely, your ______ and we’d try to write all the things we want to be to the other. It came like a competition of who could include the longest, silliest letter ending. We continued it occasionally after we got married… but it’s been a while. Sorry for the slight PG-13-ish part! HA!)

To quote a well known song…Your love amazes me! To each other, to your family, to kids who needed you,to other families at the hospital you have come in contact with, and to others you have yet to meet but through your blog you have touched their lives…you have blessed us all! You are a rare gem in a world filled with rocks, I know you make your family proud! Happy Anniversery!!!!!

Happy Happy Anniversary! May God continue to bless you with love, strength, faith and hope. Krista, you made Scott very happy 12 yrs. ago and I can still hear him singing the song he wrote for you. You are a rose among the thorns! Love to you both from us!